Laureana Wright de Kleinhans (4 July 1846 – 22 September 1896), or simply known as Laurena was a Mexican writer and feminist pioneer.

She wrote patriotic poetry and served as the vice president of the Spiritualist Society of Mexico, which she joined because one of its principles held that men and women were of equal intelligence.

[1] The family relocated to Mexico City, for better economic opportunities when Wright was a child[2] and there learned Spanish, English and French.

[7] In 1869, she was admitted as an honorary member of the Society of Nezahualcoyotl, at the request of its founders, Manuel Acuña and Gerardo M. Silva.

In 1873, she was appointed to the membership of the Liceo Hidalgo,[1] a literary society in which almost all intellectuals in Mexico gathered,[8] at the request of Ignacio Ramírez and Francisco Pimentel.

For women to have a public voice, they felt that it was imperative to speak in the educated style of men, thus de Kleinhans sought memberships that would give her literary standing.

She ultimately rejected the organization because they refused to acknowledge the equality of men and women and in fact had an initiation oath which declared "never admit to their ranks a blind man, a madman, or a woman".